Symantec Channel Chief John Eldh is leaving Symantec on Aug. 29. The company named Rick Kramer, vice president of sales, National Solution Providers and Global Integrators for North America, to oversee channel and commercial sales in the interim.

A security consultancy said cybercriminals targeted a Juniper device containing the Heartbleed vulnerability to gain access to millions of patient records at Community Health Systems Inc. The solution provider announced a breach on Tuesday.

Solution providers have been working with merchants to ensure that segmented payment system environments are continually maintained as investigators find point-of-sale system malware at 51 UPS locations in 24 states.

Managed service providers, hosting providers and IT consultancies are increasingly protecting payment system data. These 10 lapses outlined by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council produce poorly defined roles and responsibilities and are at the core of many data breaches.

Retailers face an uphill battle defending against credit card thieves who are adept at finding and exploiting a variety of weaknesses in point-of-sale systems, according to a researcher who spoke about credit card attacks at the 2014 Black Hat conference.

Researchers at Lacoon Mobile Security will hijack a virtual workspace container session on mobile devices in a Black Hat presentation today that will explore the potential VDI weaknesses on Android and Apple iOS devices.